Liberals and libertarians can dispute the use of torture and say until they're blue in the face that it doesn't work. But it did and it does and if carried out correctly it can prevent attacks. Water boarding is the perfect form of torture, and while the experience is horrible for the prisoner and stark cruelty by the interrogator. It works better than physical brutality and leaves the prisoner with same ugly face they had when they were captured.
Zero Dark Thirty may not have been how it happened exactly, but it's close enough. The essential message of that movie... Waterboarding worked and Obama can't make a decision. That Jessica Chastain chick was pretty awesome looking too.
"Zero Dark Thirty may not have been how it happened exactly"
That was a very, very tame version of waterboarding.